2017 Winter Project Week/Slicer VR

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Adam Rankin (Robarts Research Institute, Canada)
• Ryan D'Souza (Northern Digital Inc., Canada - External)
• Matthew Jolley (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - doesn't know it yet)
• Slicer/Kitware expert (help needed)
• Slicer UI/Rendering expert (help needed)

Project Description

Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
Identify and develop plan to enable VTK for the HoloLens D3D11 implementation of VTK classes started/updated by Ken Martin (https://gitlab.kitware.com/ken-martin/vtk/tree/direct3d11)	Discuss with other interested parties the value of HoloLens integration	HoloLens deemed not worth the effort at this time Discussion changed to OpenVR integration as a visualization platform from Slicer 30% - Upgrade Slicer to VTK >= 553a8bc0dd32889cc0eef49f2462e9b7e7ae81e3 (updated OpenVR support) Slicer upgrade to using OpenGL2 backend (required for OpenVR) 20% - Enable support for a single application to instantiate multiple factory overrides of vtkRenderer, vtkRenderWindow, etc... Subclass ctkVTKRenderView, ctkVTKAbstractView with -> ctkVTKVRRenderView, ctkVTKVRAbstractView such that they instantiate vtkOpenVRRenderer, vtkOpenVRRenderWindow, etc... instead of factory overridden default SuperBuild expand to include OpenVR - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr.git SuperBuild expand to include SDL2 - https://github.com/spurious/SDL-mirror.git 50% - Extend Slicer to use new OpenVR related classes Create classes qMRMLVRView, qMRMLVRWidget, etc... Update layout manager to support new view type